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Comment by koolba

> Yeah. I think that's inevitable with an XML syntax. XML is good at some things, but representing math expressions clearly is not one of them.

What is XML good at? (by good I mean better than alternatives like JSON, YAML, HAML, etc)

The only thing I that might qualify is a long term/archival quality document format like ODF/OOXML. The inherently embeddedable nature of XML does seem like a nice fit but it gets very bloated very fast (deflated wrappers help though).

parent koolba 10 years ago

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